The New Greek Comedy
Author | : Philippe-Ernest Legrand |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 600 |
Release | : 1917 |
Genre | : Greek drama (Comedy) |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Philippe-Ernest Legrand |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 600 |
Release | : 1917 |
Genre | : Greek drama (Comedy) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Martin Revermann |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 523 |
Release | : 2014-06-12 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0521760283 |
This book provides a unique panorama of this challenging area of Greek literature, combining literary perspectives with historical issues and material culture.
Author | : Katherine Lever |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 2022-04-26 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1000579271 |
Originally published in 1956, this is a critical analysis of the comedies of Aristophanes and Menander studied in the context of the history of comedy, of the allied arts, and of contemporary life. Aristophanes and Menander are deservedly the most famous writers of Greek comedy. The extant comedies of Aristophanes are notable for wit, comical action, beautiful poetry, and the dramatization of such problems as health of mind and body, sex, money, government, law, religion, education, and drama, music and poetry. Menander portrays with delicate and sympathetic understanding a world in which the seeming evils of loss and discord eventually lead to the genuine goods of discovery and concord. The art of Aristophanes is critically examined in three chapters and that of Menander in one. For centuries Dionysos had been worshipped in a spirit of ecstasy which manifested itself in song, dance and the wearing of masks and costumes, pantomime, farce, and satire. The processes by which these diverse elements were developed and fused into the complex literary form of Old Comedy are the subject of the first three chapters. Aristophanes was not only pre-eminent as a writer of Old Comedy; he also participated in the transformation of Old Comedy into Middle Comedy, a curious and interesting dramatic form which is fully treated in the seventh chapter. In the last chapter the emergence of New Comedy is traced and the art of Menander criticized. The book ends with a brief indication of the various forms in which the spirit of Greek comedy had survived to the present day.
Author | : Alan Hughes |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1107009308 |
A new account of Greek comedy performance from its sixth-century origins to New Comedy, drawing upon fresh visual evidence.
Author | : Philippe-Ernest Legrand |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 576 |
Release | : 1917 |
Genre | : Greek drama (Comedy) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Aristophanes |
Publisher | : Methuen Drama |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1994-03-14 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : |
Contains: Women in power; Wealth; The malcontent; The woman from Samos.
Author | : E. Legrand |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1917 |
Genre | : Comedy |
ISBN | : 9780742640078 |
Author | : Craig Jendza |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 361 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0190090936 |
Paracomedy: Appropriations of Comedy in Greek Drama is the first book that examines how ancient Greek tragedy engages with the genre of comedy. While scholars frequently study paratragedy (how Greek comedians satirize tragedy), this book investigates the previously overlooked practice of paracomedy: how Greek tragedians regularly appropriate elements from comedy such as costumes, scenes, language, characters, or plots. Drawing upon a wide variety of complete and fragmentary tragedies and comedies (Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Rhinthon), this monograph demonstrates that paracomedy was a prominent feature of Greek tragedy. Blending a variety of interdisciplinary approaches including traditional philology, literary criticism, genre theory, and performance studies, this book offers innovative close readings and incisive interpretations of individual plays. Jendza presents paracomedy as a multivalent authorial strategy: some instances impart a sense of ugliness or discomfort; others provide a sense of light-heartedness or humor. While this work traces the development of paracomedy over several hundred years, it focuses on a handful of Euripidean tragedies at the end of the fifth century BCE. Jendza argues that Euripides was participating in a rivalry with the comedian Aristophanes and often used paracomedy to demonstrate the poetic supremacy of tragedy; indeed, some of Euripides' most complex uses of paracomedy attempt to re-appropriate Aristophanes' mockery of his theatrical techniques. Paracomedy: Appropriations of Comedy in Greek Tragedy theorizes a new, ground-breaking relationship between Greek tragedy and comedy that not only redefines our understanding of the genre of tragedy, but also reveals a dynamic theatrical world filled with mutual cross-generic influence.
Author | : Ben Akrigg |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2013-01-31 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1107008557 |
Greek comedy offers a unique insight into the reality of life as a slave, giving this disenfranchised group a 'voice'.